Quotes for Leadership

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

George W. Bush

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Christine Lagarde

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

David M. Kelley

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Bob Iger

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Rush Limbaugh

When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.

Cesar Chavez

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Simon Sinek

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Paul Tsongas

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

Paul Ryan

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Ron Fournier

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.

Salman Khurshid

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Mike Quigley

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein

Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.

Justin Trudeau